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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Bayard Taylor (Jack) Campbell, 76, bumptious, beak-nosed ex-managing editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 350,270); of cancer; in Los Angeles. A specialist in blood-red journalism, he began reporting in 1899 for the San Francisco Chronicle, once scooped Rival Reporter Jack London by fishing a murder victim's head out of the bay and having it photographed for Page One. He joined the Los Angeles Herald in 1911 as city editor, was managing editor of the merged Herald & Express from 1933 until his retirement...
...Southland," said John Howard O'Dowd to his fellow South Carolinians, "is becoming a place where nonconcurrence with the established orthodoxy is cause for rejection and social ostracism." As editor of the Florence, S.C. Morning News (circ. 14,219), young (29) O'Dowd knew whereof he spoke. Because he had broken "the established orthodoxy'' by calling for moderation on the desegregation issue, O'Dowd was pressured into dropping the whole subject of racial integration from the News's editorial page (TIME, April...
...West Germany the Hamburger Abendblatt (circ. 310,000) prints daily reports of air radioactivity. Last week a banner headline screamed that the radioactivity of Hamburg's air had risen tenfold between July 3 and July 5. Not until the sixth paragraph did the Abendblatt's expert admit that the activity was still too low to do any damage whatever...
...blow off steam in suburban Long Island is to write a letter to Newsday (circ. 239,972), which runs readers' complaints in a special "County Irritant" column. Last month, after two teen-age girls had signed their names to a letter lamenting the dearth of summer jobs, one of the girls became more irritated than ever. She complained that after her letter appeared, a telephone caller had offered her a $65-a-week job as all-around office helper. One of the job requirements: modeling in the nude...
...that the death of American would benefit the company's two other magazines−which are in even worse financial trouble. "The odd thing," said Smith, "is that the least loser turned out to be the best one to pick to put out of business." Collier's (circ. 3,772,079) lost $7.5 million in 1953, $4.5 million in 1954 and $1.5 million last year, and Smith expects losses to be no lower in 1956. Woman's Home Companion (circ. 4,117,734), which was making a profit until 1953, has lost more than...